How large is large: Estimating ecologically meaningful isotopic differences in observational studies of wild animals

Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 23, 2012, Pages 2657-2664

  Authier, Matthieu ^a,b   Dragon, Anne Cécile ^a,c   Cherel, Yves ^a   Guinet, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ISOTOPES; SHRINKAGE;

COUNTS-AS; ECOLOGICAL STUDIES; ISOTOPIC DATA; LOGGING DATA; LOW CARBON; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; SHRINKAGE REGRESSIONS; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; SPARSE DATA; WILD ANIMALS;

ECOLOGY;

EID: 84868377020     PISSN: 09514198     EISSN: 10970231     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rcm.6389     Document Type: Article

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